The key answer of exercise 5
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4.2 for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Workbook with authors Antonia Clare, J. J. Wilson and Lindsay White from Pearson Education
Question
- What is the connection between the man and the flag? Read to find out?
- Read the text again. One sentence has been removed from each paragraph. Add sentences 1-5 to the correct place in the paragraphs.
- Are the statements about the text true (T) or false (F)?
- Find words in the text to match definitions 1-8.
Answer
a)
He helped to found the Red Cross, whose flag is shown.
b)
- ... 'chaotic disorder, despair unspeakable and misery of every kind'. There was little organised medical care. The French army had fewer doctors than vets ...
- ... an even worse businessman. Time and again he found himself fleeing his debts. Even during the early days ...
- ... a small town called Heiden. He withdrew from the world, but all this changed in 1895 when an article was written about The International Committee of the Red Cross. Six years later, ...
- From Dunant's early solo efforts, the organisation has grown steadily over the last 150 years. Today the International Committee of the Red Cross ...
- ... buried in Zurich without a ceremony. His wish was granted. But fate had the last laugh. ...
c)
- F
- F
- T
- F
- F
- F
- T
- T
d)
- aftermath
- bloodbath
- wounded
- strewn
- recipient
- creditors
- emblem
- inverse
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